Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unconstitutionality which Republican wheelhorses hurled at the AAA substitute fell to Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who would like some day to sit on the Supreme Court himself. So angry grew the Arkansan in argument with Senator Hastings of Delaware, so violently did he thump his desk, that he broke his inkwell...
...Royalists, three of whom, an insurance agent, a chauffeur and an architect, recognized Socialist Blum. The insurance agent shook his fist, the chauffeur spat on the glass window from which peered Leon Blum, and the architect set a glass-smashing example with his cane to other Royalists, who soon broke the car's lamps and windshield.* Someone tore off the rear license plate and dashed it through a window at M. Blum, the splintered glass cutting his neck to the jugular vein. Dragging the Socialist Leader out bleeding and gasping, the young Royalists seemed about to do their worst...
...Parker broke in: "Parents should undress with their children only if they can do so naturally, completely without self-consciousness...
...billions of particles of atomic weight i at bismuth, some of them might plow into the nucleus and stick, turning the bismuth into Radium E. Actually, the best particles for his purpose were deuterons whose atomic weight is 2. When the deuterons got close to the bismuth nucleus, they broke into protons and neutrons. The protons recoiled. But the neutrons, of atomic weight i, slipped...
Terangi was an island aristocrat, a nature's nobleman and the promising mate of a trading schooner. He had been married just six weeks when one day ashore in Tahiti a drunken white man picked a fight with him. Terangi broke the boozer's jaw, was sentenced to six months in jail. Because he could not stand confinement and kept breaking out, his original sentence was soon stretched to six years. In despair, Terangi escaped once more, inadvertently killing a guard who was in his way. That meant a life-sentence...